White House Down
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: June 28, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
52
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 43 Critic Reviews
Positive:
17
Mixed:
19
Negative:
7
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
37
Washington PostAnn HornadayJun 27, 2013
White House Down never quite seems to decide what kind of movie it wants to be, although by firepower alone it qualifies as this summer’s most cartoonishly bombastic exercise in sensory overload (so far). Read full review
30
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternJun 27, 2013
Mr. Emmerich, who has often conjured with cosmic themes, sometimes wittily, achieves something new this time around — a level of indifference to the genre and its fans that amounts to a cosmic shrug. What does it matter if the absurdity is slovenly, the whimsy leaden, the extravagance squalid?
25
Rolling StonePeter TraversJun 27, 2013
The poster for this movie should read: Hello, Suckers! Read full review
25
The PlaylistKevin JagernauthJun 27, 2013
White House Down wants to riff on the stirring action crowd-pleasers of old. But instead of playing on those motifs, White House Down becomes a slave to them, turning into the very kind of rote, brainless, poorly choreographed and leaden action movie it wants to lighten up. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineR. Kurt OsenlundJun 27, 2013
Roland Emmerich makes love of country into a thing of unabashed hokum, which bleeds through every nook of this overstuffed jumble and leaves no character untouched. Read full review
20
Time OutKeith UhlichJun 26, 2013
What played as rousingly dumb fun in "Independence Day" (1996) — all those pie-eyed nationalistic monologues, and U.S. landmarks reduced to rubble — now come off as callously insensitive, even with tongue firmly in cheek. Read full review
0
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperJun 27, 2013
[A] cartoonish, offensive, overblown, clanging, steaming piece of ... cinema. Read full review
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